Technical Lead
Senior Technical Lead – AI Engineering & Agentic Systems
London | Commodities Trading | AI Transformation Programme
We're partnering with a leading global commodities trading organisation on a newly created Technical Leadership opportunity focused on applying AI to real-world business and engineering challenges.
This role is ideal for a senior engineer, technical lead, principal engineer, or staff engineer who wants to be at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption while remaining deeply involved in architecture, engineering, and delivery.
The Opportunity
You'll help drive the next generation of AI-enabled platforms, developer tooling, and business workflows across a complex global trading environment.
Working alongside engineering and business stakeholders, you'll be responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering AI-powered solutions that create measurable business value.
Key focus areas include:
- Building and deploying agentic AI solutions
- Designing AI-powered workflows and automation
- Accelerating software engineering productivity through AI tooling
- Modernising legacy applications and business processes
- Developing internal AI platforms and reusable capabilities
- Evaluating and implementing emerging AI technologies
- Establishing best practices for AI engineering and adoption
What We're Looking For
We're interested in engineers who have built their careers through hands-on software development and technical leadership.
You should bring:
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience building and delivering production systems
- Expertise in modern software architecture and cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, or agentic workflows
- Strong coding skills in Python, TypeScript, Java, or similar languages
- Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers
- A passion for applying AI to solve complex business problems
Technical Environment
Examples of technologies and concepts relevant to the role include:
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- AI Agents
- LLM Applications
- RAG Architectures
- MCP
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- API Platforms
- Workflow Automation
- Platform Engineering
Why Join?
- Opportunity to work on genuinely impactful AI initiatives
- Significant executive support and investment
- Complex technical challenges at enterprise scale
- Ability to influence both engineering and business outcomes
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and agentic systems
- Opportunity to help shape a growing AI capability within a leading trading organisation
If you're excited by building AI-powered systems, improving developer productivity, and delivering next-generation software platforms, we'd love to speak with you.